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>In article <2024@shodha.enet.dec.com> ridder@elvira.enet.dec.com (Hans Ridder) writes:

[much discussion of SAS/C]

>Wow!  I don't think Randell was suggesting that the problem you were
>having didn't exist, just that it might have been fixed.  You say you
>don't have time to deal with it, but you apparently have time to let us
>all know how much trouble everything is for you.  Randell was trying to
>help you with your problem.  It appears that you really don't want help,
>you just want to complain.

You're right, I will call SAS. I have a non-beta SAS/C 5.10. I have been
experiencing optimizor problems with the compiler since the first program
I have compiled with Lattice C 5.05 (MicroEMACS 3.10). I like your tone -
you must be real good for DEC customer support (1/2 :-) Reading news takes
very little effort on my part; I can do it late at night. Calling SAS
requires that I take time out of my day as a busy Computer Engineer and
part-time graduate student and make a long-distance phone call. Sometimes,
reporting a compiler bug for something that is my personal "toy" doesn't
take precedence over keeping a running computer shop for 60 users.

>I'll bet the whole net is "sick to death" of people saying this or that
>is junk or broken, when they won't take appropriate steps to take care
>of it, except to tell everyone on the net how clever they were to find a
>bug.

I've never thought of myself as "clever". I'd rather not find a bug in my
compiler, thank you. If I thought SAS C was "junk", I wouldn't have
invested a large chunk of money in it. I *do* think that SAS has a long
way to go until they have a relatively bug-free compiler and library.
That is my _personal opinion_.

>  Hans-Gabriel Ridder			Digital Equipment Corporation

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